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After Zimbabwe became independent in 1980, Seidman left Swaziland to help author new history books for the country’s schools...
Buoyed by her experience teaching middle-schoolers history in Swaziland, Seidman co-authored a textbook that was used for several years throughout the newly-independent country...
After textbook writing in Zimbabwe, Seidman realized that fellowships were available for students to go to graduate school in the United States. She entered a master’s degree program in sociology at Berkeley, figuring it “would be a great way to go back to the States and figure out what I wanted to do when I grow...
Upon completing her master’s at Berkeley, Seidman left for Botswana to write a development studies textbook. Twenty years later, it is still “on some English teacher’s list of great resources on Southern Africa,” she says...
...Seidman returned to Berkeley in 1984 to pursue a Ph.D. in sociology. She and her husband commuted half-way across the world to see one another until the Botswana Security Police told Klug in 1985 that, “the South African government had targeted him, and they were going to kill him,” Seidman says...